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Sources for Aria Pro II pickups.

#21
Russ Pfeifer said:
I would be interested in buying a pickup if it's the original sb1000 passive humbucker
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Russ, I have this left-handed 1979 SB-1000 which is somewhere in 1980 "pimped-up" with two more original MB-Ie pickups, so I nicknamed it "SB-3000".

All pickups are original and fully working.
As currently I have few Arias SB on restoration, I am not sure what to do with this "SB-3000", and one option is to restore it and sell or to use it for parts and sell that way (maybe to sell as-is - it is working, just electronics is a bit rewired to accomodate 3 pickup, but all parts inside are original).

Anyway, if you`re interested to buy just a pickup, make me an offer (here or PM), so I`ll think about it.
 

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#22
davorZG said:
Russ, I have this left-handed 1979 SB-1000 which is somewhere in 1980 "pimped-up" with two more original MB-Ie pickups, so I nicknamed it "SB-3000".

All pickups are original and fully working.
As currently I have few Arias SB on restoration, I am not sure what to do with this "SB-3000", and one option is to restore it and sell or to use it for parts and sell that way (maybe to sell as-is - it is working, just electronics is a bit rewired to accomodate 3 pickup, but all parts inside are original).

Anyway, if you`re interested to buy just a pickup, make me an offer (here or PM), so I`ll think about it.
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#28
sears said:
Aren't the original screw holes in the corners? Did you have to drill?

To everyone: I like the sound of my CSB (visible pole pieces) with the tone pot all the way up. It gets kind of nasal as I roll off the tone. I'm assuming I would have to change the pickup in order to change that?
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All I did was put a spring under each screw to help push the pup up, the screws weren't that long, so no drilling, just screwed them down to my preferred height.
 
#37
At that price 375+250=625 Rautia pickups would be the way to go since a fully operating SB2 is 1000-1200 roughly. If you go this way get the hotter wound pickups. You won't regret it. If your in the States Kent Armstrong is in Vermont. He makes amazing pickups, they just don't sound like MB2s. They are blade construction not polepiece construction.
http://www.armstrongpickups.co.uk/miscellaneous-pickups/armstrong-pickup-37-tr/
There is also Reed James but while the pickups apparently sound great his customer service is questionable. He also does a neodymium magnet pickup that is supposed to sound great.
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